Abstract
Waldorf education can be thought of as an ideal: an education that nurtures the individual to meet their potential, an education towards freedom, an education which meets the needs of the time. However, education (Waldorf or otherwise) is always specific: it is enacted in a particular place, at a particular time, with and by particular people, in particular circumstances. Furthermore, as Paulo Freire says, education can never be neutral, it is always political, in the sense that it promotes a certain view of the world over another.
This essay points out how important it is to renew the curriculum. The curriculum of history, for example, is still dominated of the European perspective. Engaging with interculturality will undoubtedly challenge some traditions in Waldorf education.
Keywords: Education, development of Waldorf/ Steiner education, contexts of education, interculturality